MAAN — A 23 year old man was killed and his brother injured in a shooting Tuesday by an unidentified person in the Jafir district in the southern Maan Governorate, according to the director of the Maan Government Hospital Walid Rawad.

Rawad told Petra that the victim was shot in the chest and was pronounced dead on arrival at the public hospital's emergency ward and his 19-year-old brother was struck by a bullet in the pelvis and was listed in a fair condition.

The reason behind the shooting was under investigation.

Rawad said the dead man was handed to his family for burial after undergoing an autopsy to determine the cause of his death.